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By Dana Meachen Rau Illustrated by John O'Brien
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ISBN 978-0-448-48310-8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents
Who Was Marie Antoinette? ...... 1 The Archduchess ...... 5 A Royal Wedding...... 20 Trying to Fit In ...... 31 Living Like a Queen ...... 45 Motherhood ...... 59 Scandal and Suffering...... 68 A Failed Escape ...... 8 5 End of the Monarchy...... 94 Timelines ...... 104 Bibliography...... 106 Who Was Marie Antoinette?
On April 21, 1770, fifteen-year-old Marie Antoinette left home and traveled to France. She had always lived a royal life. Her parents were the emperor and empress of Austria. The young archduchess was leaving behind her beloved homeland. She was engaged to marry Louis Auguste, the future king of France. Marie Antoinette rode in a jeweled coach amid a parade of more than fifty other carriages. Hairdressers, chefs, and other attendants traveled with her for the two-and-a-half-week journey. Peasants cheered along the road between Vienna, Austria, and Strasbourg, France. They hoped to catch a glimpse of the young bride-to-be. The royal procession reached c the Rhine River, where a new building stood on an island. Marie Antoinette said good- ---- bye to the Austrian people who had traveled with her. When she zi· entered the building, she had to take off all of her Austrian clothes. � � � �-r------�---.: She was given a French gown made of golden fabric. She wasn't allowed to bring anything from Austria into France, not even Mops, her little pug dog.
CD -- -::::. In an official ceremony, she was handed over to the French. When she opened the doors on the side of the building that faced France, crowds of
CD b ;J;:�;;t?h noblemen and noblewomen greeted her. Marie Antoinette cried, but she tried to be brave. The whole city of Strasbourg held a holiday in Marie Antoinette's honor. A French procession of carriages then carried her to her new husband and her new life at the grand palace of Versailles (ver-SIGH). Marie Antoinette became the queen of France while still only a teenager. She had no idea how to be a good leader. Many people in France were poor. They had to pay high taxes. Their taxes went to the royal family. Some of the money was spent running the government. But plenty-was also spent on gowns, Jewels, parties, and fancy palaces. The common people became angry with their king and queen for wasting money while they had so little. By the end of Marie Antoinette's life, the French people were cheering for her death.
CD Chapter 1 The Archduchess
Emperor Francis and Empress Maria Theresa of Austria ruled over a large area of central Europe. Maria Theresa, who had inherited the throne from her father, was a strong and determined woman. On the night of November 2, 1755, she took a break from her reports and other government paperwork when her labor pains grew too strong.
CD TIM[LIN[OJ: Tll[WORLD American Benjamin Franklin experiments with electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm Britain and France fight over territories in America in the French and Indian War A comet appears, just as English astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742) predicted it would, and it becomes known as Halley's Comet English mapmaker John Spilsbury invents the first jigsaw puzzle, showing a map of England and Wales, which is used to teach children geography British explorer James Cook heads out in the Endeavor on the first of three important expeditions in the Pacific Ocean James Watt creates a steam engine that uses less fuel than earlier models The colonies of America fight against England for independence in the American Revolution The Montgolfier brothers, French papermakers, invent the first hot-air balloon Noah Webster publishes the first part of his spelling book, which will go on to sell more than seventy million copies Englishman Edmund Cartwright invents the first steam-powered loom for weaving thread into fabric The French Revolution transforms the govern111ent of France from a monarchy to a republic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute . is performed in Vienna Ed·ward Jenner, a British doctor, experiments with the first smallpox vaccination BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fraser, Antonia. Marie Antoinette: The Journey. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
Lever, Evelyne. Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
"Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution." PBS .org. http://www.pbs.org/marieantoinette/ (accessed May 1, 2014).
Seward, Desmond. Marie Antoinette. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.
Weber, Caroline. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. Who Is ... (/Who Was ... (
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